From: | One Ronin <ronin@*******.COM> |
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Subject: | Officer Mages....(was RE: MARINES ][ ) |
Date: | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:29:58 PDT |
grandmothers tend to disagree with my "mages as enlistedmen" theory, so
I've decided to revise it. I realize that with full-blown mages being
so damned rare, it would be difficult at best to get one to enlist in
the military for shit-sucking work and piss-poor-pay. On that note, I
stand corrected. However, I still have a difficult time seeing mages as
being strictly officers. It's not that they wouldn't make good
officers, it just that role they play in war isn't necessarily suited to
leadership. Certainly, mages wouldn't be frontline soldiers.....they
are way too valuable for that. I see them as being sort of like warrant
officers who are assigned to companies or battalions, and and at that
level. There will be mages in charge of other mages, but for the most
part, I don't think they would be fully integrated as the leadership of
mundane units. I kinda see them as having their own brigade or division
where individuals are detached to other units on an as needed basis. I
still think that officer rank is a little inappropriate for all mages.
Who wants to see some Colonel mage confined to administrative duties
when he could be out there...hands on, throwing mojo. I'm sure I'm
gonna get slammed by everyone else out there, but, IMNSHO, mages
shouldn't start off with anymore rank than Warrant Officer.....unless
they have a college degree.
BTW, has anyone ever applied this logic to Lone Star mages? I'll bet
you they get paid less than military mages and probably get fewer
benefits. I'm sure they don't start off as captians or anything.
Anyone wanted to explain that one?
EST SULARUS OTH MITHAS.
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